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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Sakamoto, Kerri
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Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto in 1959. A graduate of
the University of Toronto, she also earned an M.A. in English
from New York University. While The Electrical
Field is her first novel, she has published short stories,
written scripts for independent films, and has written extensively
on Asian North American art. Sakamoto is a member of the Gendai
Gallery that opened September 30, 2000 at the Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre in Toronto, where she currently resides. |
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Fiction
The Electrical Field
Toronto: A.A. Knopf, 1998.
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1998.
London: Macmillan, 1999.
London: Pan, 2000.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
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Toronto: Random House of Canada, 2001.
Publisher's Synopsis (Knopf Canada, 1998)
When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered
in a park, members of a small Ontario community must finally
acknowledge certain inescapable truths about each other. The
Electrical Field slowly exposes all those implicated
in the murders -- particularly Miss Saito, the novel's unreliable
narrator, through whom we gradually discover the truth. ...
The Electrical Field is set in the
1970s, and reaches deep into the past to explore the dire
legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the
war.
Awards and Honours
1998 Governor
General's Literary Award, Fiction--English (Nominated)
1998 Kiriyama Pacific
Rim Book Prize (Nominated)
1998 Arthur Ellis Awards (Nominated)
1999 Commonwealth
Writers Prize-Best First Book (Winner)
1999 Chapters-Books in Canada First Novel Award (Nominated)
2000 Canada-Japan
Literary Award-Published Book (Winner; shared with Michel
Regnier's L'Oreille gauche) |
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Fiction
One Hundred Million Hearts
Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003.
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Publisher's Synopsis
[T]he story of Miyo Mori, who lives a reclusive life in Toronto
with her elderly father, Masao, a retired auto mechanic who
has cared for Miyo since the death of her mother. When Masao
also dies, the past he had kept secret comes back to life
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[The] novel matchlessly explores the complexities of loyalty
and betrayal, sacrifice and cruelty, as Miyo comes to discover
the past, the lives of her parents, and the true meaning of
the wartime propaganda phrase "One hundred million hearts,
beating as one." |
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Non-Fiction
Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung. (Co-edited
with Helen Lee)
Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002.
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Publisher's Synopsis
For almost two decades, Richard Fung has been a major voice
navigating complex debates on sexuality, race and representation.
As a video artist, critic and activist, he has made formative
contributions to queer politics and race critical theory,
while forging a new poetics of diasporic identity and narrative
hybridity. This comprehensive volume of original commentary
and in-depth analysis ... provides an essential overview of
his pioneering work in contemporary film and video. |
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Anthology
Tok. Book 2
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Sakamoto, Kerri. "The Man Who Built Walls and Tore Them Down." In Tok. Book 2, edited by Helen Walsh. Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2007, 79-86. [excerpt from a novel in progress]
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Howells, Coral Ann . "Monsters and Monstrosity: Kerri Sakamoto, The Electrical Field." In her Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
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Miki, Roy. "Rewiring Critical Affects: Reading Asian Canadian in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto's One Hundred Million Hearts." Chap. in his In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2011, 207-233.
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